Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publish the Old Testament stories, Publisher Harte wanted them illustrated in the new kind of journalistic portraiture that TIME and its cover artists had developed. Of our cover artists (the others are, of course, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chalia-pin), Rowe was the only one who felt that he could devote all of his time to the project. Harte gave him the assignment...
...John Dewey was still the nation's most noted living philosopher, who had perhaps had more influence on 20th Century America than any other thinker of his day. He had changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living. As the nation grew, Dewey's philosophy had grown with it-highly practical, preaching adjustment...
...story wouldn't be complete without a purely Harvard angle. One day a reporter found that Curley for some reason or other, carried a revolver in his desk. When the newsman investivated he discovered that Curley felt in some danger for his life because a few days earlier, he had received a package that ticked. When he opened it, the major found an alarm clock surrounded by preprint candy that a couple of "prankish Harvard youths" had sent...
...supper, scheduled for December 14 in Agassiz will consist only of dessert and coffee this year, but will be free. Since the affair is the one all-college get-together aside from formal opening, the Sophomores felt that no admission should be charged. Regular dinner will be served in the dormitories before the supper and an effort will be made to invite as many commuters as possible...
Would the plan work? O.C.I., which has signed a contract to supervise the plan, was convinced that it would. U.S. State Department officials also felt "pretty optimistic" about it. And other Middle Eastern countries have been impressed enough to start dickering with O.C.I, for similar plans to develop their lands-with soap...